Chillon Castle (, ) is a medieval island
castle
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located on
Lake Geneva
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, south of
Veytaux
Veytaux () is a municipality in the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
The Château de Chillon across the Avenue de Chillon on Lake Geneva provides a view of the entire lake looking westward.
History
Veytaux ...
in the Swiss canton of
Vaud
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. It is situated at the eastern end of the lake, on the narrow shore between
Montreux
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and
Villeneuve, which gives access to the
Alpine valley of the
Rhône
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. Chillon is amongst the most visited medieval castles in
Europe
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. Successively occupied by the
House of Savoy
The House of Savoy (, ) is a royal house (formally a dynasty) of Franco-Italian origin that was established in 1003 in the historical region of Savoy, which was originally part of the Kingdom of Burgundy and now lies mostly within southeastern F ...
, then by the
Bernese from 1536 until 1798, it now belongs to the canton of Vaud and is classified as a
Swiss Cultural Property of National Significance.
Etymology
According to the Swiss ethnologist
Albert Samuel Gatschet, the name ''Chillon'' derives from the Waldensian dialect and means "flat stone, slab, platform". The name ''Castrum Quilonis'', attested from 1195, would, therefore, mean "castle built on a rock platform.
Introduction
The castle of Chillon is built on the island of Chillon, a small, steep-sided oval
limestone
Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...
rock that advances into
Lake Geneva
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between
Montreux
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and
Villeneuve. The placement of the castle is strategic: it guards the passage between the , which allows access to the north towards
Germany
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and
France
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, and the
Rhone valley, a quick route to
Italy
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, and offers a viewpoint over the Savoyard coast on the opposite side of the lake. A
garrison
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A garrison is usually in a city ...
could thus control (both militarily and commercially) the access to the road to Italy and apply a toll.
Chillon has been a military site since the central
Middle Ages
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and the development of the current castle spans three periods: the Savoy Period, the Bernese Period, and the Vaudois Period.
History
Savoy period
A square
donjon
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was built on the island in the 11th century; the identity of the works' commissioner is currently in question. It was built to control the road from Burgundy to the
Great Saint Bernard Pass.
[de Fabianis, p. 175.] A charter of 1150, in which
Count Humbert III granted the
Cistercians
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of
Hautcrêt free passage to Chillon, shows that the castle was under the authority of the
House of Savoy
The House of Savoy (, ) is a royal house (formally a dynasty) of Franco-Italian origin that was established in 1003 in the historical region of Savoy, which was originally part of the Kingdom of Burgundy and now lies mostly within southeastern F ...
.
From the mid 12th century, the castle was the summer home for the
Counts of Savoy, who kept a fleet of ships on Lake Geneva. The castle was greatly expanded in 1248
and 1266-7 by Count
Peter II. During this time the distinctive windows were added by Master
James of Saint George
Master James of Saint George (–1309; French: , Old French: Mestre Jaks, Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ...: Mestre Jaks, Latin: Magister Jaco ...
, who is believed also to have added similar windows to
Harlech Castle in Wales at a later date.
Chillon as a prison
The counts and dukes of Savoy used the castle as a residence but also to house prisoners. Its most famous prisoner was probably
François de Bonivard, a Genevois monk, prior of St. Victor in
Geneva
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and historian, who was imprisoned there for six years in 1530.
Bernese period
In 1536, the castle was captured by a Bernese army, and all the prisoners, including Bonivard, were released. The castle became the residence for the Bernese bailiff.
Vaudois period
In 1798, the French-speaking canton of
Vaud
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drove out the German-speaking
Bern
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ese authorities and declared the
Lemanic Republic. The Vaudois invited in French troops to help them maintain autonomy from the other Swiss. When the French moved in and
occupied, Chillon was used as a munitions and weapons depot.
Restoration
At the end of the 19th century, a systematic restoration of the monument was undertaken, through which an ethic of monumental restoration was developed in one of the first cases of the application of archaeology and history to rebuild a structure in a historically accurate way. This was possible because of the combination of four factors:
* The involvement of pioneering specialists in restoration including Johann Rudolf Rahn, one of the founders of the
Swiss Society of Historical Monuments in 1880, and , a specialist in
Renaissance
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architecture who was closely associated with the restoration of buildings such as the Romanesque in
Saint-Sulpice, the in
Lausanne
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, and the
Lausanne Cathedral
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History
Construction of the ...
. The initial lead architect of the restoration at Chillon was
Ernest Burnat, who had worked with de Geymüller in restoring Lausanne Cathedral. He initiated a general survey of the fortress, which was continued and intensified by his replacement as lead architect-archaeologist, , who played a major role in the development of archaeology in the Canton of Vaud. Naef devoted twenty years to the study of Chillon.
Subordinating aesthetics to historical accuracy, he undertook detailed research into historical archives and conducted extensive archaeological excavations. The process was conscientiously documented in plans, sketches, photographs, and a journal kept by Naef. Until it was abandoned in 1908 the restoration followed a painstaking process of indicating replacement stones with inscriptions on the cut stone (R = Restored; RFS = Restoration facsimile; RL = Free Restoration), or by a change of colour or a red line on the masonry.
Naef also restored the interior of the castle, including the tapestries of certain rooms, such as the great room of the bailiff, also called the "great Bernese kitchen".
* The creation in 1887 of The Association for the Restoration of Chillon. From the outset, the Association aimed for an "artistic" restoration with the intention of "giving back to objects the character with which they were clothed, almost a latent life, a life impression of the ideas of their time". It is also planned to create a historical museum at the castle.
* The appointment in 1889 of a Technical Commission comprising renowned art historians and architects who specialised in monument restoration. Alongside Rahn and de Geymüller, it included Théodore Fivel, architect in
Chambéry
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and connoisseur of Savoyard castle architecture, , restorer of the , and State architect
Henri Assinare. The Commission first met on 27 October 1890 and closely supervised the restoration over subsequent years. De Geymüller played a key role in its success. Drawing on principles published in 1865, and enhanced in 1888, by the
Royal Institute of British Architects
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, he established a framework in the ''Milestones for the Restoration Program'' printed in
Lausanne
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in 1896.
Naef also joined the Technical Commission on the death of Fivel in 1895.
* The adoption by the
Canton of Vaud
Vaud ( ; , ), more formally Canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts; its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms bears the motto "Liberté et patrie" on a white-green bicolou ...
in 1898 of a law on historic monuments, the first of its kind in
Switzerland
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, which planned to establish a cantonal Commission for historic monuments and to create a cantonal archeologist's post. Naef, who drafted the law, was the first appointee to this function and was responsible for putting in place protection of historical monuments.
The result was judged to be exemplary. In an 1898 lecture to the
Zurich
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Antiquity Society,
Johann Rudolf Rahn boasted about it, while the German Emperor,
William II, inquired about the Chillon model when planning the reconstruction of the fortress of
Haut-Koenigsbourg. Due to these restorations, the castle is in excellent condition and is a good model of
feudal
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architecture.
Tourism
From the end of the 18th century, the castle attracted romantic writers and inspired poets from around the world, including
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Republic of Geneva, Genevan philosopher (''philosophes, philosophe''), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment through ...
,
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
,
Alexandre Dumas
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His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the mos ...
,
Gustave Flaubert
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,
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( , ; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel ''Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an History of science fiction# ...
and
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...
. By 1939, helped by its proximity to the popular tourist destination
Montreux
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, the castle was attracting over 100,000 visitors a year. By 2005, this number had increased to 300,000.
Chillon remains open to the public for visits and tours on an entrance fee basis and is, according to the castle's website, "Switzerland's most visited historic monument". There are parking spaces and a nearby bus stop. Inside the castle are recreations of the interiors of some of the main rooms including the grand bedroom, hall, and cave stores. Visitors can view four great halls, three courtyards, and a series of bedrooms including the ''Camera domini'', which was occupied by the
Duke of Savoy
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and is decorated with 14th century
murals.
In art and popular culture
Having been inspired by the story of
François Bonivard after a visit to the castle,
Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...
wrote a poem entitled ''
The Prisoner of Chillon'' in 1816 about François. Byron supposedly carved his name on a pillar of the dungeon. The French artist
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( ; ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French people, French Romanticism, Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: ...
drew inspiration from Byron's poem for his painting ''
The Prisoner of Chillon'' which was exhibited at the
Salon of 1835.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.
Landon's writings are emblematic of the transition from Romanticism to Victorian literature. Her first major b ...
included a poetical illustration to a painting of the castle by
Samuel Prout (engraved by J. B. Allen), in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838.
Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( ; ; ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the ...
painted the castle several times during his Swiss exile in nearby
La Tour-de-Peilz
La Tour-de-Peilz () is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Vaud in Switzerland. The city is located on Lake Geneva between Montreux and Vevey (their agglomeratio ...
. The most famous representation is "The Castle of Chillon," oil on canvas painted in 1874 and currently located at the
Musée Courbet in
Ornans.
In his 1878 novel "
Daisy Miller",
Henry James
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has his heroine and a young American compatriot, Winterbourne, visit Chillon Castle. The one-time prison of François Bonivard assumes a symbolic and premonitory significance for Daisy Miller, who thinks she can escape the shackles of social conventions.
In 1890, watchmaker Edouard- GabrielWuthrich, finished a mechanical automaton that took five years to make. Made of
zinc
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,
steel
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and
brass
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it is a 1/100 scale model illustrating the capture of the castle and liberation of
François Bonivard by the Bernese in 1536. Measuring , it is equipped with a
music box
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with original sheet music handwritten by
Geneva
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n composer E. Perrin and includes one hundred moving figurines, including many small soldiers and scenes of torture in dungeons visible through barred windows. The automaton disappeared for decades and was eventually purchased by the Association of Friends of Chillon, the Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History (MCAH) and the Castle Foundation, for 59,000
Swiss franc
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s, at an auction held in
Paris
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in March 2016.
The painter E. Lapierre depicted the castle in oil on canvas in 1896.
Chillon was used as the cover image of Bill Evans' 1968 live album ''
Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival'' and inspired the castle in the 1989 Disney animated film ''
The Little Mermaid
"The Little Mermaid" (), sometimes translated in English as "The Little Sea Maid", is a fairy tale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Originally published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children, the story foll ...
''.
Patrick Caulfield's painting After Lunch (1975)
includes a photomural of Chateau Chillon.
The castle has twice hosted the Compagnie du Graal theatre company, based in
Thonon-les-Bains
Thonon-les-Bains (; ), often simply referred to as Thonon, is a subprefecture of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. In 2018, the commune had a population of 35,241. Thonon-les-Bains is part of a ...
, in 2009 for a sound and light adaptation of
Shakespeare
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's
King Lear
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and again in 2012 for the creation of an epic fresco inspired by the titan of Greek mythology,
Hyperion.
Gallery
File:Château de Chillon mit Autobahn-IMG 0823.jpg, Chillon Castle and Motorway
File:Schweiz Schloss Chillon Gesamtansicht.jpg, From the south
File:Château de Chillon - Montreux .jpg, From above
File:Chillon HPS DSC03744.JPG, Front
File:Basement-of-chillon-castle.jpg, Chillon Castle crypt
File:Grand Hall of the Count.jpg, Grand Hall of the Count
File:Château de Chillon Innenhof 2008.jpg, The castle courtyard
File:Chillon mg 4915-b.jpg, Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...
's signature in the dungeon
File:Chateau du Chillon.jpg, ''Chateau du Chillon'' by Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( ; ; ; 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the ...
, 1875
File:Chillon-Castle.JPG, Chillon Castle, aerial view
File:Château de Chillon video.webm
See also
*
Fort de Chillon – a 20th-century fort largely buried in the adjoining hillside
*
List of castles in Switzerland
This list includes castles and fortresses in Switzerland.
Entries list the name and location of the castle, fortress or ruins in each Canton in Switzerland.
Aargau
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Appenzell Innerrhoden
Basel-Landschaft, Bas ...
*
List of islands of Switzerland
*
Tourism in Switzerland
Notes
References
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Fonds : Château de Chillon (600-2013) [Archives de l'Association du château de Chillon (antérieurement Association pour la restauration du château de Chillon) et archives provenant du Secrétariat général du Département de l'instruction publique et des cultes et du Service des bâtiments concernant le château de Chillon : photographies, plans, inventaires, journaux de fouilles, écrits non publiés, contrats, règlements, procès-verbaux, rapports, correspondance, comptabilité, imprimés, publicité, registres des visiteurs du château, dossiers divers, archives de l'architecte Otto Schmid. 172,20 mètres linéaires]. Cote : :fr:ISO 15511, CH-000053-1 N 2. :fr:Archives cantonales vaudoises, Archives cantonales vaudoises.
présentation en ligne
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* Denis Bertholet, Olivier Feihl, Claire Huguenin, ''Autour de Chillon. Archéologie et restauration au début du siècle'', Lausanne 1998.
* Claire Huguenin, ''Patrimoines en stock. Les collections de Chillon'', Lausanne 2010.
* Paul Bissegger, «Henri de Geymüller versus E.-E. Viollet-le-Duc: le monument historique comme document et œuvre d'art. Avec un choix de textes relatifs à la conservation patrimoniale dans le canton de Vaud vers 1900», ''Monuments vaudois'' 2010, p. 5-40.
External links
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